dragon pen

Some time ago, the acacia tree in the backyard had lost its leaves and flowers overnight on the night that Monk Yuanhai fell down. The people in the temple didn't know what happened, they only thought that it might wither overnight... But with Yuanhai After a series of events, such as coma and recuperation, Huineng being seriously ill and unable to get up all day long, and Shi Yuan acting as the acting host, the tree slowly came back to life miraculously!

——People say that this acacia tree symbolizes the fate of Anle Temple, but Shikong scoffs at it.

Now, that acacia tree has regained its luxuriant flowers and leaves, and the flowers are in full bloom, surrounded by the bustling snow. Some of the flowers have already faded, and they have produced lovely red fruits, which are fiery red. Yes, it makes people happy to watch.

So more and more people gather under the acacia tree these days, and there is an endless stream of people praying for marriage. It is said that under the acacia tree in Anle Temple, there is a young monk with an abnormal brain. He tells people every day that there are demons in Anle Temple.

When this statement spread, no one believed Shi Kong anymore.In the end, it reached the ears of the monks in Anle Temple, and everyone even alienated Shikong because of it——

"Shi Kong, did you come from the backyard again? You were arranged to clean the front yard tomorrow."

"Ah, you child, are you talking to the pilgrims again about what you have?"

When the little monk hurried over, two monks under the eaves found him.

Shi Kong stopped, turned around and looked at the two young monks standing under the eaves not far away, paused and said: "I didn't say anything! I just told the truth! There is no Shiyuan in Anle Temple! Master said Tell me! He's a demon!"

Hearing the words, the two monks first exchanged glances, and they could clearly see the words "Look, look" and "Here we go again" written on each other's faces... One of them seemed to have heard this kind of words too much, and finally stopped. He said patiently: "Shi Kong, Shi Yuan just served as the acting abbot, and it was the time when people needed help. Shi Yuan was so kind to you in the past, but at this juncture, you not only didn't help, but also kept saying that Shi Yuan was a monster, Said that the master was injured by him... Hey, you say you."

"Recite scriptures and Buddha, and talk about compassion all day long, but in the end, you lose your conscience and release emptiness. How can you do this?"

The little monk frowned, looked at the two brothers who taught him righteously, and did not refute but emphasized: "I am not lying, Shi Yuan is a demon, who killed brother Huihai, and now he is going to kill brother Huineng and master. "

"Nonsense, Brother Huineng just contracted a cold." One of the monks retorted.

"Master too." Another monk echoed.

Shi Kong: "..."

Shi Kong lowered his eyes, and finally gave up arguing with the two senior brothers. He turned around and left their line of sight, but he didn't go far. He just turned around and walked to the corridor not far from the backyard, and stood still. He held the broom and looked in the direction of the backyard, as if which of the two daughters in the backyard attracted the little monk just now...

He frowned slightly, with a worried look on his face.

"——Don't worry about them. Don't look at their well-dressed appearance. In fact, they are two red-card flower girls in the Goulan courtyard at the foot of the mountain... They look clean, but they have been touched by countless men."

There was a sound behind him, Shi Kong turned around and found that the visitor was leaning against the door of the Buddhist hall at this time - he was like a snake without a waist, he was dressed like a monk but he didn't look like a monk should, so he laughed At that time, the corners of his eyes were slightly red, and he was very handsome, but it made people feel disgusted for no reason.

It is Shiyuan.

...Why did you think this skin was abstinent and serious before?

Shi Kong clenched the broom tightly in his hand, and even relaxed his frowning eyebrows just now. He became expressionless, watching the person leaning against the door stand up straight, and walked over the threshold to Beside him—

"The big festival is approaching, and I heard that there will be dignitaries coming to Jinling. Now they think of praying to the gods and Buddha, praying for a good marriage." Shi Yuan came behind Shi Kong, "I don't know that the Buddha doesn't want it." Bless people like them."

"...It doesn't matter." Shi Kong changed his stubbornness of arguing with the two senior brothers just now, facing Shi Yuan, he just said indifferently, "Anyway, what they are worshiping is just a demon."

"Well, anyway, senior brother will never touch such an unclean and filthy person." Shi Yuan laughed, and he turned to Shi Kong, stopped laughing, and bent down showing a concerned expression, "Shi Kong Brother Kong, have you grown taller?"

It is exactly the same as the previous "Senior Brother Shi Yuan" who often cared about Shi Kong and was patient with him when he lectured.

Shi Kong raised his head and looked at the person in front of him. After a while, he walked in front of him with a cold expression on his face——Shi Yuan kept a half-bent posture for a moment, and then turned around: " Where are you going?"

"..."

Shi Kong lowered his eyes and just went his own way.

"Will you go to see that old man Yuanhai?" Shi Yuan laughed sarcastically, "He won't wake up after being slapped by me."

Shi Kong paused, finally showing a trace of anger on that indifferent face, he suddenly turned around and stared at Shi Yuan silently, Shi Yuan laughed loudly: "Why? Do you regret that you didn't know that at the beginning? The big monster of what origin drove away——ah, yes, I know he didn’t leave by himself, because someone told me that he heard you quarreling before he left, and then he went down the mountain.”

"Not your business."

"I'm happy to see it succeed. If he doesn't leave, I really don't know what to do next."

Shi Yuan followed behind Shi Kong, saw that he was walking with his head buried in his mind, and didn't care about him at all, so he stretched out his hand to grab his shoulder, and pulled him into his arms—the slender fingertips gently touched him. Lifting, he forcibly lifted the lowered head of the person in his arms to look up at him, as if he was satisfied with the other person looking at him like this, Shi Yuan raised the corners of his lips: "What's the matter, the breath is so irritable today? Are you the same as other people?" Is my senior brother arguing about me being a demon?"

"..."

Shi Kong raised his head and looked at Shi Yuan expressionlessly.

Shi Yuan looked at the little monk in his arms—he seemed to be only reaching his chest in his memory, but when he got closer, he found that he had grown a lot taller, and his immature face had faded away. The previous baby fat...

On the contrary, it became more and more delicate and beautiful.

Shi Yuan's eyes moved slightly, and the smile on his lips became more elusive. As the person in his arms looked at each other, he increased his strength with his fingers as if to prevent the person in his arms from breaking free. He bent down slightly, and that handsome face getting closer...

"Shikong, monks who practice Buddhism and recite scriptures are just for the purpose of passing away and becoming a Buddha...Xianzong cultivates infinity, but Tantricism can become a Buddha for three lifetimes. Life is short, and there are shortcuts to go. Why waste so much fearless time?"

The tip of the tall nose touched Shi Kong's nose.

"Is it okay to come to practice with senior brother? Senior brother must make you feel comfortable..."

The slightly red lips stuck to the cold lips of the little monk in this way——

The soft touch with a little warmth made Shi Yuan's smile more and more satisfied. He changed his usual indifferent appearance in front of Huineng, and gently scratched the person in his arms with the tip of his middle finger. The Adam's apple came out, and the index finger was clasped on his jaw, as if he was trying to appease some violent little animal...

Just as Shi Yuan wanted to stick out the tip of his tongue and pry open the confinement teeth to taste the taste, but when the tip of his tongue touched the lips of the person in his arms, he suddenly felt a burning pain in his waist...

With a cry of pain, he suddenly pushed the person in his arms away——

Shi Kong staggered, pushed away in two or three steps, stood on the spot and looked at Shi Yuan coldly, paused, raised his hand, and roughly wiped his lips with the rough and cold sleeve.

The smile on Shi Yuan's face disappeared, he stretched out the tip of his tongue to lick his lips, stared at Shi Kongyin and said cruelly: "You are just wasting time!"

"I never said that I want to become a Buddha." Shi Kong said flatly, "Master said that belief is just a kind of sustenance of the heart. Shi Kong only seeks the cause, not the result."

"You will regret this."

"At least not now."

"One day, I will ask you to come to me by yourself. Take off your clothes and beg me to enjoy it."

"Then you just wait," Shi Kong said with a short sneer, "I look forward to it more than you and wait to see if that day will come."

……

So in the evening, the monks in Anle Temple were not surprised to hear that Shi Kong was imprisoned for speaking rudely to Shi Yuan. He was only allowed to travel between the meditation room and the Buddhist hall every day, and he was not allowed to go to the backyard or Yuanhai. Watching, similarly, the task of delivering medicine and food to Brother Huineng every day is also given to other people.

Shi Kong accepted this punishment without saying anything. He heard from his brother who saw him in the afternoon that he clearly saw Shi Kong kneeling on the futon in the Buddhist hall with a calm face, watching the pilgrims coming and going calmly. It's just that every time a pilgrim walks past him, he will stop the chanting and repeat lightly——

"Don't come again."

"Don't come again."

"You are worshiping a demon, he will not bless you."

"Don't come again..."

The pilgrims all looked unhappy, and hurried past him. Over time, people simply avoided him—but Shi Kong didn't seem to care, and smiled and began to recite his scriptures lightly, but he would not stop. Under the persuasion with others.

Until sunset in the evening, the last pilgrim also left the meditation room——

Shi Yi was in charge of cleaning the altar today. He was younger than Shi Kong, about 11 years old. At this time, he was stepping on his feet, using clean gauze to clean up the incense ash that fell beside the incense cauldron, and then served it again. Put it right back...

Putting down his heels, the sound of the wooden fish behind him hadn't stopped. He raised his head and looked at the head of the Buddha above his head. After staring at it for a while, he suddenly called out: "Brother Shikong."

The sound of knocking on the wooden fish stopped.

"Do you think this Buddha statue looks different from before? Could it be that it was too cold and froze?" Shi Yi turned around innocently, looking innocently at Shi Kong, "I always feel that the Buddha looks like he can't laugh anymore."

The downcast monk raised his eyes, glanced at the Buddha statue, and didn't answer his little brother's words, but just asked indifferently: "Is the cleaning finished?"

"Ah."

"Go back after cleaning, I'll do the rest." Shi Kong stood up, took Shi Yi's hand and led him out of the Buddhist hall. When he came outside, he saw the child shrinking his neck from the cold, After hesitating for a while, he bent down, squatted in front of him and said, "What you said just now, please don't tell anyone else."

"Hey, senior brother Shi Yuan can't do it either?"

"No."

"Where's Shi Jia?"

"No."

"Then that, what about Shiran?"

"Neither."

"..."

After saying his friend's name, Shi Yi covered his mouth abruptly, nodded, waved his hand at Shi Kong, and then bounced away... Only Shi Kong was left standing in front of the Buddhist hall, for a long time, he Turning around, he went to the shadow of the corner of the Buddhist hall and picked up the bamboo broom for sweeping snow. When he passed by a bronze mirror on the wall, he seemed to turn his head to look at it inadvertently. With kind eyebrows and kind eyes, the eyebrows and eyes seem to be really different compared to before...

Shi Kong walked out of the hall with the broom in his arms. When he passed the gate, a gust of evening wind blew by. He paused for a while and looked around, then lowered his head and carefully swept the dust on the steps. After sweeping the floor, he took the broom He put it down against the door, and while doing this, he raised his head and looked around——

He vaguely felt that he seemed to be waiting for someone.

A man who waits for the night, when the night is quiet.

But tonight, this person still didn't show up.

He should have been disappointed, but he was surprised at random that he wasn't - when he found no one else around, he was surprisingly relieved, and his tense heart relaxed, Muttering "Don't come", he turned and returned to the main hall, and sat down at the front of a futon. His slender body straightened a little, and his soft eyebrows and eyes became a little serious...

Shi Kong thought for a while, took the wooden fish placed on the tribute platform, and tapped the wooden fish to make a very crisp and flexible sound——

He closed his eyes and began to recite the scriptures and practice the evening class——

"Ananda, there are living beings in the same category. Each of them has twelve inversions. It is like pinching eyes and chaos. The inversions are wonderful, perfect, pure, and bright, and they have such illusory and delusional thoughts. Now you practice Buddha Samadhi, So Ben Yinyuan thought about it..."

A cold night wind blew behind him.

The candle flames on the candle holders in the hall trembled slightly.

The door of the main hall, which had been tightly closed behind him, was pushed open again with a "squeak" sound. I don't know if it was caused by the wind, or...

Shi Kong's heart suddenly trembled slightly.

"Little monk?"

"Little monk..."

In the wind, there seemed to be faint whispers.

"Establish three gradual steps to get rid of it. It is like removing poisonous honey from a clean vessel, washing the vessel with various soups, water, and ashes, and then storing nectar. What is it called three gradual steps? One is to practice and get rid of its help Cause. The two are truly cultivated, and their positive nature is broken. The third..."

The voice of the young monk who closed his eyes and chanted sutras suddenly dropped, his brows that were stretched slightly frowned, his eyes were closed tightly, but he didn't look back, as if he knew what happened behind him a long time ago——

"The Shurangama Sutra of All Bodhisattvas Playing with the Head, Volume [-], talks about the ten categories of sentient beings—well, that kind of thing, little monk, are you making a special trip to recite it to me?"

An unscrupulous laugh came from behind, such a reckless intruder finally interrupted the monk's chanting, he stopped, opened his eyes and put down the wooden fish, turned around and looked at the monk standing with his sleeves folded at this moment. The white-haired man on the threshold, at this moment, is looking at him with red pupils, with an unscrupulous smile on his face——

hallucinations.

Yingying snow reflected in front of the Buddhist hall, the man's figure seemed as if he had really come back, the shadow was drawn very long by the moonlight...but Shi Kong knew it.All of this is just formed by his obsession——

Illusion.

"Why are you here again?" The monk stood up, "The forbidden place of the Buddha's gate is not a place for monsters like you to play around - quickly get down from the threshold! Didn't I tell you last time that the threshold is the shoulder of the Buddha, How can you step on the shoulders of Buddha!"

"Well, as long as you have a lot of rules, the Buddha does not admit that the threshold is his shoulders. Last time, I made a special trip to ask." The man narrowed his eyes with a smile, but he still walked over the threshold like he was afraid of offending the young monk in front of him. After walking up and down, he came to the little monk, "What are you doing? Are you chanting scriptures?"

Shi Kong closed his eyes and turned his head: "I was interrupted by you."

"Then you continue, I will read with you." The man said, and sat down with another bedding——

Sitting in a carefree manner.

Shi Kong raised his eyebrows, as if he was going to get angry again, and the man seemed to be waiting for him to make such a reaction, and then he smiled, and he stretched out his hand, and the long arm easily moved the person in front of him. He embraced the person in his arms, and when the person unexpectedly hit his chest with the tip of his nose, he sneered and laughed——

The vibrating sensation of the chest cavity and even the tip of Shi Kong's nose pressing on the man's chest became itchy, Shi Kong was stunned——

If it was an illusion, the person in front of him would be too...

real!

"Don't recite the scriptures. There is nothing to recite. You little monk has impure roots of wisdom. Even if you recite a hundred times, you will not become a Buddha."

"You're talking nonsense!" Shi Kong struggled anxiously.

"Oh, I'm talking nonsense, I'm talking nonsense, don't move around when the time comes—come on, little monk, let me tell you a joke... Once upon a time there was a little monk who didn't understand, but he didn't know what to do in the face of a catastrophe. Unknowingly, he was stubborn like an old man and wanted to drive away the person around him who could help him—well, after that person really left, the little monk found that he could do nothing and made himself It's extremely embarrassing..."

"I'm not in a panic."

"Yeah, I'm just telling a joke."

As Zhu Jiuyin spoke, he felt that the robe on his chest was wet with a strange warm liquid, and he silently raised the corners of his lips: "Fortunately, the person who was driven away finally came back, and the little monk realized that My own mistakes, I lay on his chest and wept uncontrollably."

"I didn't break down in tears."

"Hey, I said it all, it's just a joke."

"..."